The Experience: I started Burger Weekly in the summer of 2011. I was working at the 92nd Street Y, and one of my coworkers was a girl we called Lunchpail, though for the life of me I can’t remember why. Anyway, years later it turns out that Lunchpail’s boyfriend opened up Virginia’s, a newish spot…
The Experience: A few weeks ago, I took a trip to Red Hook and ate the burger at Grindhaus. It was great. Great enough that it earned a spot on my best of list for 2015. Grindhaus gets their meat from Fleishers Craft Butchery, so it should come as no surprised that when I was…
The Experience: You know what I can’t stand about the larger food websites servicing New York City? Cynicism. Before visiting Uncle Sam’s Burgers, a new fast-casual outpost on 5th Avenue that originated in China, I read a few articles about the restaurant’s opening on the typical larger sites. What I found was coverage ranging from…
2015 was a great year for burgers in New York City. New restaurants debuted amazing hamburger offerings, and old favorites proved that they are still in the game. In 2015, I wrote about burgers from 73 different burger joints in New York City alone. While I do encourage you to go back and read about…
The Experience: After an educational day visiting the Schweid & Sons processing facility, a group of fellow burger fanatics and I visited the Candlewyck Diner, not far from MetLife Stadium, to eat the dish we’d seen making its uncooked way down an assembly line. Candlewyck Diner might be the epitome of the famous Jersey diner….